Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-29

gANM S'N~MAY SAyA"Akk
By ELL D. AXE.
IRoNToN. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
U
KING MILAN of Servia saws that nation
will be neutral in case of a Russo-German
war.
CONGRESSMAN SETH c. MoFFArT, of
Michigan, died at Washington, on the
Odd, of blood poison.
THE Government receipts for this month,
up to the Odd, amour ted to 81 ,697, $50, be-
ing an excess of $12. 927. 1877 over the dis
bursements for the Same period.
SHEEHY, member of the British Parlia-
ment, was tried at Clonme1, Ireland, on
the 21st, for melting resistance to eviction,
and was sentenced to one months i'm
prisonment.
MRS. CLEvELAND's Saturday afternoon
receptions, from three till five o'clock,
will begin on Saturday, January Z. and
continue on alternate Saturdays through.
out the season.
ALL vessels. pontoons and tugs belong
ing to the Austrian Navigation Company,
have been ordered from the lower Danube
to Turnseverin for the winter. This is an
unusual precaution.
THE railroad commissioner of Nebraska
have made formal demand on the roads
of that State that they revise and reduce
through and local rates to correspond with
reductions already made in Iowa, Illinois
and Missouri.
THE Dominion Department of Agri-
culture has made a complaint to the
high commissioners office in London, En-
gland, concerning the many unsuitableim
migrants who are sent to Canada in
destitute condition.
The New York American Merino Sheep
Breeders Association, at their annual
meeting in Rochester, on the Goth, passed
resolutions condemning the message of
the President, SO far as it favored putting
wool on the free list.
JOHN HOOPER, member of Parliament,
was sentenced at Dublin, on the 10Th, to
two months Imprisonment for publishing
reports in his paper, the Cork Herald, of
meetings of the suppressed branches of
the National League.
THE British Government has decided
to Danish King Jaja of Oporbo, West
Africa, to st. Helena. The King recently
caused $50 of his subjects to be beheaded,
as a warning to others not to permit
traders to go into the interior.
H.. FoREFATHERs' DAY was celebrated at
Boston, ON the Goth, with a banquet in
Music Hall in the evening. Addres ses
were made by Governor Ames, Lieuten-
ant-Governor Bracket, "Mark TWAIN"
Chauncey n. Depew and others.
THE police of Queenstown, Ireland,
have warned the newsmen that they will
be arrested if they sell copies of the
Dublin Freena1n's Journal which contain
reports of meetings of the suppressed
branches of tho National League.
FROM semi-official sources in Bucharest,
1t is learned that in view of the uncertain
political situation, preparation is quietly
being made by Roumania to meet any
sudden emergency, and that the govern
ment will act in accord with Austria and
Germany.
FoREFATHER's DAY was celebrated in
New York on the night of the 21st with
banquet by $50 members of the New En-
gland Society of Brooklyn. General Sher-
man, General Slocum and General Haw.
ley and President Dwight of Yale were
among the guests.
JUSTICE GRAY, of the United States
Supreme Court, on the 10Th, appointed
General N. p. Banks, whose term of office
as United States marshal for the district
of Massachusetts, expired on that day, to
act as marshal pending the appointment
of he 49, H.
THE trial of the suit of the Banuue
Franco Egyptienne against the trustees
of the New York, Boston & Montreal rail-
road for the recovery of $4,000, 600, closed
on the ed in the United States Circuit
Court in New York. 1t had been in prog
ress three weeks. Judge Wallace reserved
his decision.
Mr.. BELL, the superin tendent of foreign
mails, states that the Post-Office Depart
ment has made a merchandise parcels
post convention with the Bahama islands,
which is to take effect January l. 1t con-
tains practically the same provisions as
the postal treaty made with Jamaica and
the Barbados.
RIGHT Rev. JAMES JOSEPH CARBERY,
Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Hamil-
ton, Ont, whose death is reported by
ton three years ago. He went to Rome
last September to attend the Pope's jubi-
lee. He was suddenly taken ill at Cork,
and died there on the 10Th.
DR.. FERDINAND VANDEvER HAYDEN
died at his residence in Philadelphia, OH
the 22d, after an illness which has con-
fined him to his home for over a year and
half. He was a distinguished scientist,
He was born of Puritan descent, in West.
feld Mass, September Z, 1929.
THE case of the State VS.. Governor
Swineford of Alaska, being an action to
compel defendant to render an account OF
funds placed in his hands as commissioner
to the New Orleans Exposition, was de-
cided at Marquette, Mich, on the 21st, in
favor of plaintiff. The total amount
placed at Governor Swineford's use for
disposal was ST, 800.